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Shigeru Ban designs pair of transparent public toilets in Tokyo

August 17, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Public toilets in Tokyo's Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and the Haru-No-Ogawa Community Park by Shigeru Ban for the Tokyo Toilet project

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has designed two public toilets in Tokyo with transparent glass walls that become opaque when they are occupied. Built in the city’s Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and the Haru-no-Ogawa Community Park, the pair of restrooms feature tinted-glass walls to enable those approaching to easily check whether they are in use

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Shigeru Ban designs pair of transparent public toilets in Tokyo

August 17, 2020 Tom Ravenscroft 0
Public toilets in Tokyo's Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and the Haru-No-Ogawa Community Park by Shigeru Ban for the Tokyo Toilet project

Pritzker Prize-winning architect Shigeru Ban has designed two public toilets in Tokyo with transparent glass walls that become opaque when they are occupied. Built in the city’s Yoyogi Fukamachi Mini Park and the Haru-no-Ogawa Community Park, the pair of restrooms feature tinted-glass walls to enable those approaching to easily check whether they are in use

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Photos reveal Shigeru Ban’s Tainan Art Museum building in Taiwan

January 30, 2020 Lizzie Crook 0
Tainan Art Museum by Shigeru Ban in Tainan, Taiwan

An overhanging canopy shades the cascading exhibition spaces and outdoor terraces that make up Shigeru Ban’s gallery at the Tainan Art Museum. Revealed in new photos by Paulo dos Sousa, the recently completed museum in Taiwan is designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Ban’s studio with Shi Zhao Yon to evoke a Royal Poinciana – the official

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Shigeru Ban covers Swatch headquarters in vaulting timber shell

October 18, 2019 Jon Astbury 0
Swatch and Omega Campus by Shigeru Ban

A double-curved timber shell constructed from 7,700 timber pieces forms the Swatch Headquarters by Shigeru Ban in Biel, Switzerland. The watchmaker’s campus centres on a 240-metre-long timber vault – one of the largest wooden structures in Europe, claims the practice. The timber gridshell – a double-curved gridded structure  – contains the Swatch Headquarters, snaking across the

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